As of last Thursday, Drew, Anisa, and I made our way to Anisa's apartment in Quito. We've enjoyed meals of rice and noodles (vegetarian), hot dogs, and pizza since our arrival. Drew and I left Quito yesterday for the likes of Cotopaxi, Ecuador's second highest summit at 19,347 ft. Coto is a part of the Andes and is an active volcano. We arrived at the refugee, a hut approximately 1000 vertical meters below the summit, and met a few friends of Drew's from his previous mountaineering expeditions in Ecuador. We slept here for a few hours before starting our ascension of the volcano at around 1am in high winds and lots of ice. After following Karl, an avid mountaineer and bike racer for many hours, we reached the summit at 6:55am. Unfortunately, due to the bad weather, we were unable to get any good photos, but I do have a few pretty heinous photos of some weathered climbers.
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